The bots grab web pages for the benefit of plebs like those Cameron and Osborne claimed to be speaking for in those years before they were elected. The bots were what made the democratization of information possible. It was bots that inspired Cameron and Osborne. It was bots that were going to free us from serfdom in the way they said we would be. Without the bots you just had pockets of power and privilege for those in the know. Without the bots you just had the same old concentration of wealth and power there had always been, since long before the Internet Archive started taking snapshots of the Conservative website in 1999.

I don't get it. Labour stopped doing this years ago and the Lib Dems did it within days of them becoming Coalition partners. The Lib Dem strategy and policy section was massive and had many, many detailed policies that they'd shared in advance to get views and perceptions before becoming official policy, many widely differing to the things they support today, that disappeared quickly. I know that quite well as I responded to quite a few and still have a few hanging around on my hard drive.

Why would any political party want to provide the media with an easy own-goal of speeches and policies from different times? I'm just surprised it took them this long to do it.

Arguing with the forum trolls is like playing chess with a pigeon. No matter how good you are, the bird will **** on the board and strut around like it won anyway

The Tories don't want anyone to realise that they spouted just as much soundbite newspeak then as they do now.

Labour don't want anyone to realise that they actually did things ten years ago, not just made empty promises.

The LibDems don't want anyone to realise that ten years ago, although they were harebrained, they didn't just bend over and take it up ,the arris from either one of the other parties that would offer them ministerial salaries.

no idea
I don't know any average lefties: in fact I don't even know what one is.

do you know any?

I'm an above average lefty which means there must be a below average lefty somewhere. My money is on an SWP member in London who hasn't sold enough papers or read enough Trotsky this week. The Revolution is on hold this week!

The list of accusations is, accusations that (like those over Falkirk) Cameron daren't make outside the Commons. Take it from one who's experiencing it, the NHS is going to hell in a handcart under this lot!

Edited by Trojan, 16 November 2013 - 10:36 PM.

"This is a very wealthy country, money is no object" D. Cameron February 2014